> How do you stop China from producing and leaking COVID 2.0? Step one would be stop giving them money as a workaround for domestic bans. Step two would be to

> How do you stop China from producing and leaking COVID 2.0? Step one would be stop giving them money as a workaround for domestic bans. Step two would be to stop helping them by building high tech biolabs for them. Presumably they needed western funding and expertise for a reason. Step three is to recognize that there's nothing China-specific about accidents in virus labs, and to solve the problem domestically as well. Then if it does happen again in China the rest of the world will be in a much stronger position to criticize a violation of global norms, and impose actual consequences. > with a stockpile of PPE and teams ready to respond quickly. Ugh please no not this again. PPE was worth nothing during COVID, so that won't help. Go prove it to yourself right now. Pick five random countries you don't know anything about. Pull up their reported COVID case number graphs from OWID or elsewhere. Now try and draw lines on the discontinuities where they added or removed mask mandates (or even lockdowns). Mass PPE deployment had no effect on case growth so you'll find it's impossible. If the Trump admin sold off stockpiles then it's not like the man himself made that call, it'd be because pre-COVID people understood there was no evidence to support it.